Best of 2012

Dec 30, 2012

At Amusing Planet we cover anything that is offbeat or interesting, and that includes a wide range of topics. With over 400 articles publish...

Snow Roller: A Strange Meteorological Phenomenon

Dec 29, 2012

Snow roller is a rare meteorological phenomenon in which large cylinders of snow are naturally formed as chunks of snow are blown along the ...

Maeklong Railway Market: Marketplace With a Railway Track Through it

Dec 28, 2012

Maeklong Railway Market, located in Samut Songkhram, Thailand, around 37 miles west of Bangkok, looks like any other open-air market in Asia...

Montserrat, a Modern Day Pompeii

Dec 28, 2012

Montserrat is a Caribbean island located in the Leeward Islands, part of the chain of islands known as the Lesser Antilles, in the West Indi...

The Beautiful Key Monastery, India

Dec 26, 2012

Key Gompa is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery located on picturesque hilltop at an altitude of 4,166 metres above sea level, close to the Spiti ...

Great Mosque in Djenne, The Largest Mud-Brick Building in The World

Dec 25, 2012

Founded in 800 AD, the town of Djenne in central Mali, is one of sub-Saharan Africa's oldest cities. Situated on an island in the Niger ...

Meet The Most Gorgeous ‘Peacock Spider’

Dec 24, 2012

Maratus volans , better known as the Peacock Spider, is the dandiest, the cutest little thing you’ll see today. The male of this species has...

Abandoned Farmhouse Transformed Into Life Size Dollhouse

Dec 22, 2012

Canadian artist Heather Benning has turned an abandoned farm house she found in 2005 in Manitoba, Canada, into a life-sized dollhouse. Mi...

Long Exposure Photographs of Dancers by Bill Wadman

Dec 22, 2012

Photographer Bill Wadman has captured 9 dancers in flowing motion with long exposure photography. The images were captured in a dark room w...

Skywalking in Russia

Dec 22, 2012

Skywalking is the latest photography fad in Russia, where thrill-seeking climbers seek out the highest mad made structures they can find, cl...